Noam Chomsky | Caliphates and nation states | BB #43

In this exclusive episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the esteemed American academic and political thinker Professor Noam Chomsky. #BloodBrothersPodcast​ #NoamChomsky​ #Caliphate​

The celebrated commentator and historian explains the colonial roots of the modern nation state, and the human cost of the West's economic prosperity in comparison to countries in the developing world and Global South.

Professor Chomsky describes how the U.S. utilises both secular dictators and "radical Islamic" groups and monarchies to advance its imperial hegemony in the Middle East and North Africa.

Topics of discussion also include the desire for a Caliphate in the Muslim-majority world and how such an Islamic polity polity could emerge and manifest in today's world.